Re: (VIC) Mini Landslide at Watsonia

["Ben" <smithb@alphalink.com.au>]

"Samuel Eades" <seades@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
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> > I had a look today at about midday. It is about 1/2 way between the
> entrance
> > and the up end of the platform. It is really very very minor. There was
an
> > Alstom crew looking at it from the top of the cutting, and flagmen doing
> > nothing much on the platform and back towards Macleod.  That is the
> busiest
> > that I have ever seen Watsonia in along time.
> >
> > I am wondering how they will clear it up as there is not much room
between
> > the platform and the cutting wall.
>
> They will probably take a couple of Hi-Rail trucks and a backhoe in and
dig
> it out...

I had a closer look today and noticed that the landslide has taken out a
support cable for the overhead wires, which explains the continuing speed
restrictions.

-Ben